How long before some of these characters will be 'martyring' themselves on the streets of Ireland while killing innocent civilians because Irish society refuses to bend over backwards for their medieval perverted religion?

Probably never. Oh, and between 10 and 20 does not constitute "flocking". Threre are some very windy posters on this site.

Are you seriously comparing Republican Socialists like Frank Ryan, Peadar O'Donnell, William Tumilson, George Brown etc. who went off to fight for the democratically elected Spanish Republican Government to reactionary Islamofascist jihadists like Hussam Najjir going off to Syria to wage Holy War to further Saudi Salafist and Western imperialist interests..

I am seriously comparing Frank Ryan etc (not that I regard him as any great thinker) who went off to fight for the democratically elected Spanish Republican Government to volunteers going off to Syria to wage war against the brutal dictatorship of the Assad regime.Since you know nothing about the people involved perhaps you should suspend judgement until you are better informed.

Originally Posted by Partizan

The idiots you probably refer to are O'Duffy and his band of reactionaries who lets say, didn't impress their Spanish Falangist hosts.

I don't recall the Irish clergy complaining about O'Duffy and his men.

May Allah reward them for their sacrifice. Dr Ali is correct, the Muslim Ummah responds to the needs of its brothers and sisters in many different ways and sometimes those needs require taking up arms. Some of us were blessed to defend our brethren in Bosnia, others in Chechnya. Praise Allah there are still those among us willing to fight for what is right.

May Allah reward them for their sacrifice. Dr Ali is correct, the Muslim Ummah responds to the needs of its brothers and sisters in many different ways and sometimes those needs require taking up arms. Some of us were blessed to defend our brethren in Bosnia, others in Chechnya. Praise Allah there are still those among us willing to fight for what is right.

The IT article says that most of those going are motived primarily by concerns other than religion. But nice try at highjackig the efforts of others for your own ends. And when you say Bosnia and Chechnya, I assume the "some of us" you refer to does not include you.

These Islamofascists are being utilised by the Western imperialists along with their Saudi financiers in installing a reactionary Sunni, Saudi styled theocracy on Syria controlled and dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, where Christians, Shia, Jews, Druze, Yezidis etc. will either be driven out or forced to submit to Dhimmi status under Sharia law. It will neither be democratic or socialist.

That sounds a lot like Iran – you know, the Islamofascist theocracy that executes gays and is backing Assad to the hilt. The Syrian Army is being uzed by the Iranian Islamofascists and the Russian imperialists to keep Syria an Alawite dictatorship, controlled and dominated by Alawite extremists, wher Sunnis, Christians, Jews, Druze and Yazidis will either be driven out or killed for opposing the regime or treated as second-class citizens (both of which ar happening alredy). It will neither be democratic or socialist.

Originally Posted by Podolski1.5

For a detailed statement on the situation from the Workers' Party read here:

It's funny when the Assad-Khamenei-Putin árselickers blabber about how all the rebels ar al-Qaeda Islamists while at the same time ranting about how the big bad "Western imperialists" ar helping thoze rebels set-up a "pro-Western, pro-Israel" state. Aye, 'cuz al-Qaeda Islamists ar Israel and the West's biggest fans.

AN INCREASING number of foreign “jihadists” are operating in Syria, an independent United Nations panel has confirmed.

The investigative panel appointed by the UN’s Human Rights Council said yesterday that outside “terrorists” have joined the country’s civil war, with some of these forces joining armed anti-government groups while others are operating on their own.

“Such elements tend to push anti-government fighters towards more radical positions,” said the head of the panel, Brazilian diplomat, Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. He referred to the foreigners as “terrorists”, though the word did not appear in the written report.

...Prof Pinheiro said the human rights situation has “deteriorated to such a degree that it is difficult to describe justly in such a few words. Gross violations of human rights have grown in number, in pace and in scale.”

He said the frequency of these “egregious violations” were so enormous that his panel could no longer investigate them all.

“Civilians, many of them children, are bearing the brunt of the spiralling violence,” he said.

Food, water and medical supplies have run short in areas subjected to Syrian government air strikes, shelling and siege, Prof Pinheiro said, adding that investigators had received “numerous accounts … of civilians barely managing to survive”.

He also reported an “increasing and alarming presence” of Islamist militants in Syria, some joining the rebels and others operating independently. They tended to radicalise the rebels, who have also committed war crimes, the Brazilian expert said.

...Russian diplomat Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva said: “There are jihadist mercenaries fighting on the opposition side. Those who in the view of some states are bringing democracy to the region are in actual fact carrying out mass murder.”

The Irish governments’s silence on the issue of jihadists travelling to Syria amounts to complicity in the abuses being committed by anti-Assad groups.Kenny and Gilmore's silence not only speaks of their physical and mental cowardice, it also speaks of their willingness to tolerate and white-wash jihadi barbarity.

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